Steven Rattner

Steven Lawrence Rattner "is a Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC focused on the firm’s $2.9 billion media and communications private equity business. Prior to the formation of Quadrangle Group in 2000, Mr. Rattner was Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. Mr. Rattner founded Lazard's Media and Communications Group and has been involved in many of the largest and most important transactions in these industries. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he also founded the Communications Group. Mr. Rattner is active in many philanthropic organizations. He is Chairman of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Channels 13 and 21, New York’s public television stations), Chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee and a Fellow of Brown University, and a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brookings Institution. In addition, he writes regularly for a variety of publications on economic and public policy matters. Mr. Rattner holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Brown University and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship.“

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In 1986 he married Patricia Maureen White. 


 * Member, Bilderberg
 * Director, New America Foundation
 * Director, IAC/InterActiveCorp
 * Director, Partnership for New York City
 * Former Chair, Channel 13 (New York's public television station - after Henry Kravis stepped down)

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